Author:
Chi Zhang,Cong-Hua Xie,Bo-Tao Song,Xun Liu,Jun Liu
Abstract
AbstractIn plants, acid invertases are known to be the key enzymes cleaving sucrose into reducing sugars (RS) (glucose and fructose). To improve the quality of potato (Solanum tuberosumL.) chips, which is largely influenced by RS accumulation in tubers stored at low temperature, a part of acid invertase cDNA with hairpin RNA (hpRNA) structure was transformed into potato cv. N2. Detection of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and Northern blotting suggested that the RNA interference (RNAi) vector was successfully transformed into cv. N2. The analysis of acid invertase activity in the plantlets and microtubers of RNAi transgenic lines indicated that the expression of the acid invertase was significantly repressed by the activity of RNAi of plantlets by an average 69.8% (with the exception of line Ni-1) with a maximal decrease of 78% (line Ni-4), and the highest decrease of activity in microtubers of 68%. Compared with that of well-inhibited antisenseinvtransgenic plants, the comparative downregulation of RNAi suggests a distinct alteration of endogenous acid invertase activity and a potential strategy for post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) in modulation of cold-sweetening in potato.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Agronomy and Crop Science,Biotechnology
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